Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Marguerite Yourcenar

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Aesop

Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.

Darrell Drake

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Parker Stevenson

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Bill Watterson

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

Lindsey Graham

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

Henry David Thoreau